I’m sure most have heard about the new music video/tech demo for The Wilderness Downtown featuring Arcade Fire’s song “We Used to Wait.” I’ve been talking about for years that music videos have been severely reduced to acute internet memes and demo reel filler for … Read More →
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Film Crush: Faye Wong in Chungking Express
The great thing about watching a film a day, is that I can always look forward to having that one unique moment that every good movie brings. Sometimes it’s a wow, sometimes a laugh or smile, but there’s always some genuine moment that comes across … Read More →
Honest Images (Part One): The Book of Mary
There has been a transformation in my thinking as an artist and I thought I would create a series of posts that share my new influences and thoughts, as well as some new work that I have been making that very much embody a way … Read More →
A Nos Amours
A Nos Amours is a new book by photographers Michael J DeMeo and Ariane Geffard. It is rare to find a project in which two artists can meld their individual styles together so well. The images span across 32 pages and are wonderful in their … Read More →
Interview with Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders
I started Letter to Jane out of a desire to talk with and showcase the people in the creative community who I looked up to, and Scott Sternberg was at the top of my shortlist of favorites. Sternberg took classics that had been become so boring … Read More →
Woody Allen on Stardust Memories
Stig Björkman — Stardust Memories was kind of a revelation for me when I saw it again recently. I hadn’t seen it for many years, but I was very impressed and moved by it and I liked it very, very much. It is definitely a … Read More →
A Weekend at the Beach
Video artist Ira Schneider’s piece A Weekend at the Beach from 1979 is a small gem from the past. The video is nothing more than a banal home movie of a day at the beach in Del Mar California, with some friends such as Jean-Luc … Read More →
Eliya Nikki Cohen
I saw these wonderful photographs from Eliya Nikki Cohen in our Flickr group, that reminded me of Murnau’s Sunrise or Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante. Be sure to follow her other work on Flickr and to submit your work if you’d like it to be featured on … Read More →
The Beauty of Coppola’s “Disasters”
One From the Heart Rumble Fish There’s something about cinema that when a director changes the entire industry, they ultimately put the nail in their own coffin. It happened with Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and Francis Ford Coppola. One From the Heart and Rumble … Read More →
Clear Light
These are some images I took from from last friday night at LUCE in Portland OR. “Clear Light” was the combined work of Ashley Helvey, Iacoli and McAllister, Navarre, Una, and Valet (a project of Honey Owens). The night was the best kind of installation art; … Read More →
Download Letter to Jane for iPad for Free!
I just wanted to give a quick update to let you know that LETTER TO JANE magazine: ISSUE 01 for iPad is available on iTunes for FREE for the weekend to celebrate the release of issue 02! Issue 01 for the iPad features Yoko Ono, … Read More →
Honest Images (Part Two): The West Coast
After previously talking about my new outlook on photography I thought I’d share a bit of my recent work. They’re nothing much I’ve just been taking little snapshots as I travel between California and Oregon throughout the year, but some of them will end up … Read More →